well mainly rejects a proposed raid on bank savings with not a single yes vote in parliament the country needs a plan to avoid bankruptcy. president obama is in israel for his first foreign visit after reelection with claims his trip is papering over the cracks in the relationship rather than seeking real progress on key issues searches peace in the middle east and a potential strike on iran. the number of hunger striking prisoners at guantanamo bay nearly double was according to camp officials with at least two inmates in hospital. i welcome good to have you company you're watching. live from moscow. now.

celebrating after the country's parliament gave a resoundingly no to the e.u. i.m.f. bailout package the move could have seen the government help itself to up to ten percent of people savings in the nation's private bank accounts now that it's been rejected the ailing year is a member will have to work out another plan to avoid bankruptcy. reports from outside the parliament building in the. well there was clearly is certainly a lot of opposition to going into the a vote that the parliament had made opposition coming from the people as well as politicians voicing how will this kind of a position from brussels from the e.u. ministers of the i.m.f. is unfair to make the a citizen is a shoulder bear the brunt of the burden of having to recapitalize the banks if they did not at all see agree to this kind of package there were a lot of people who were gathered near the parliament building it rejecting the troika very angry at the european union it particularly in germany had feeling that

they were pushed into a corner and having to accept a condition that was really very tough on them and this is really quite a statement to be made by the cypriot parliament there were thirty six you know those nineteen abstentions and zero yes is a quite a statement indeed to make when other countries that had received bailouts from the european union have had to accept very stringent and draconian. packages a stair to cots a lot of a lot of measures that really where the people were bearing the brunt and so cyprus is sending a very strong no to be a troika to the european union and it really is interesting to see how this unfolds the next step for the parliamentarians here is to present other options with to be a president to be a public and they are looking at opposite don't involve the troika there were a lot of indications that especially coming from the leftist parties they really don't want to see any involvement from the e.u. at this point but if that will work and if they will come up with it with an amount

that will actually help to solve the financial crisis of cyprus it is really a big question here so the controversial deposit times has been rejected by side perspective you has crossed the red line in proposing the idea that is the view of nigel ferrars the u.k. independence party m.e.p. things brussels has sent a strong signal to people across the. even in my diaries predictions in this parliament over the years about the way the e.u. bosses were behaving never did i think that they would in a completely unprecedented manner resort to stealing money from people's bank accounts and the message that sends to people who've got savings in banks in those countries certainly if i was there is get your money out while you can do not invest anywhere in the euro zone you've got to be mad to do so because it's now run by people who don't respect democracy who don't respect the rule of law who don't respect the basic principles a problem which western civilization is supposed to be based by our propping up

a euro zone which in the end is going to collapse in disastrous failure are they are prepared to do anything to do so i think that this decision this german dominated and led decision is the worst decision we've seen so far in this whole euro zone crisis or cyprus may now face bankruptcy within weeks it needs about sixteen billion euros to rescue its economy with the so-called troika creditors reluctant to provide the country with the full amount it may now start looking to other sources and calls for help may reach moscow where cyprus finance minister has arrived to meet his russian counterpart. in off reports. this conversation was initiated by the president of cyprus who personally told by the middle position that his country's parliament has just rejected the european union's controversial bailout plan is happening as the cyprian finance minister is currently in moscow and is set to meet with his russian counterpart on wednesday and all this is

happening despite angela merkel's direct calls on the country not to even consult with anyone about his current economic problems except for brussels and the so-called troika of investors what we're witnessing here now apparently is that cyprus is turning to russia and it's no wonder why since billions of euros which came from russia are clearly a lying on cyprian bank accounts there is speculation that the origin of a part of this money is not really clear but the majority of these funds billions of euros are clean money which were brought there by pretty much all layers of russian businesses from small ones to giant corporations talks about a deal of stories asian have been continuing in russia for quite some time and the measures similar to what the european union has proposed would accelerate dhea of sherry's ation which would do significantly hurt the cyprian economy even more

which is based on foreign money and it's not only a russian money which is there in cyprus it's also money which came from other countries like china and japan and if a domino effect begins this could all tingly lead to the collapse of the syrian economy. so could russian roubles be one of the reasons the e.u. wasn't willing to fully bail out cyprus that is being debated in today's crosstalk with pay to the value. the germans were agreed to this bailout if the russians depositors which is a lot there's about thirty billion dollars worth of russian money in those banks they don't get away scot free but it's because of deposits overwhelmingly the people who are getting by this tax on depositors are cypriots. and the notion that russian oligarchs and so on are being brought by this is really put about in germany in order to justify the very harsh treatment of cypriot savers. we see.

barack obama is heading to key ally israel for the first time as u.s. president obama's previous term in office was marred by frosty relations with israel's recently reelected prime minister benjamin netanyahu however expectations of a breakthrough on the most pressing issues appear low even among u.s. officials and many see the much trumpeted visit as a p.r. stunt artie's poor slayer reports. when former american president george bush visited israel his trip with guys pope benedict the sixteenth was cloaked white now it's a bar mr. visit bansuri good more moments it is a sign of the extraordinary relations between israel and the united states. so extraordinary that the prime minister's office invited the public to choose one of

these designs as the trips official emblem but relations between the two leaders are strained and many believe the positive p.r. is nothing more than clever spin he can talk as much as he can the bottom line. barack obama's hands are tied because far from being assured of washington's and shakable support critics warn that if obama doesn't confront the twin yahoo on settlements and sixty seven borders the visit could disintegrate into another diplomatic failure and some say we knew all of violence in the middle east but it won't be easy we don't see ourselves leaving our communities we have returned to places where we have the jewish people have always wished to live there and we live there with their encouragement of the support of the israeli government john kerry didn't make any bones about the value he placed on television in his first trip abroad as secretary of state israel was noticeably absent from his agenda there are policy differences. on the palestinian issue on the

wards the rise of islamist forces in. egypt what you see from. what you see from washington. at the distance. from the palestinian street for that matter obama obama came just to beautify the ugly face that bush left the american government works the same whether the president is a bomber or bush the only difference is that one president smiles while the other does not. when it comes to read about men netanyahu are at loggerheads a bomber is against an israeli military strike despite relations between the u.s. and iran being themselves quite strained franking iran. in spite of american explicit objections would certainly. hamper israel's relations with the united states might. even break them all together so for

all its hype a bomb is visit for many is less of a compliment and more of an attempt by washington to reaffirm its military alliance in pursuit of its economic interests the interests of the united states it's not. it's in the resources of the middle east i'm not and it's people who ever think that it is devoted to change that is what will prove differently proof it comes at a price literally the three day trip cost millions of dollars a high price for a visit with such a promise this is likely to be the scene for the next three days one a bomb is in town anger frustration and raised in the streets of palestine also full of posters protesting the president's visit to many of them his face has been blacked out policy on t.v. . the number of prisoners staging a hunger strike a good one time in my bed has nearly doubled according to u.s. military officials but you also admit at least two inmates were treated in hospital

for dehydration but maintain there's no mass strike mistreatment as detainees lawyers claim meanwhile the u.n. human rights body has finally responded to mounting media coverage of the one ton and i crisis. of the details r.t. received a long statement from the office of the un's high commissioner for human rights navi pillay now directly related to the guantanamo hunger strike that statement said that quote while aware of some of the allegations of mistreatment of inmates said to have provoked the hunger strike which includes undue interference with inmates personal effects we are still trying to confirm the details unquote that was a statement coming from the un's office of commissioner for human rights now the statement went on to say that the human rights commissioner has repeatedly regretted that the u.s. government has not closed get mail and has she's also expressed concern over the obstacles the national defense authorization act has created for losing the island

prison and for trying prisoners that are there even the united nations has not been able to have enough access at guantanamo to see in depth what is taking place with this hunger. right the prisoners at guantanamo bay went on hunger strike on february sixth in protest of the alleged confiscation of their personal items and. sacrilegious handling of their qur'an at that time the u.s. military was saying that only a handful of prisoners were on hunger strike that we do know that medical experts have told us and so have attorneys that once this hunger strike enters its forty fifth day hunger strike participants risk losing their eyesight and losing their hearing there's been reports according to attorneys of hunger strike participants losing up to thirty pounds if not more coughing up blood losing consciousness being hospitalized problem is we as journalists do not have direct

access to more autonomy obey the information we get of what is taking place there with the with the inmates is censored by the military so right now we are basing our information on what the attorneys are telling us of the detainees and this hunger strike but it can get to the point of those detainees being force fed. reporting from new york for us also you also spoke on the phone to comes in jason do you write to member of the defense team to some of the detainees who are in guantanamo now here's what he told us about the conditions the prisoners finding themselves in when i first walked to the meeting room. i met with my client my car i was shocked. more one. hundred. people who are out of. government. can only talk about. i can tell you the american. story

about how what happened. still ahead for you this hour iraq continues to be maad by violence ten years after the u.s. led invasion we look at how stability in the country is proving to be divisive. rebels in syria and the plane after a chemical attack that killed twenty five people and wounded dozens. of foreign intervention that a more after the birth. place

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with max cause or for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines two kinds a report. with. the consensus here to. choose the opinions that to. choose the stories that impact your life choose access to. welcome back a wave of deadly violence and assassinations have mark the tenth anniversary of the u.s. led invasion of iraq at least sixty five people were killed in a series of blasts in baghdad on tuesday which became the deadliest day in iraq so

far this year and as artie's lucy cuffing of explains from the capital a decade after western coalition stepped in to bring freedom and democracy stability is still eluding the nation iraq in the immediate moment is dealing with the numerous political problems there's tension on the ground between the sunni populations in the shia led government there's conflict over oil deals frustration with the political system accusations of corruption and strife and of course the daily insurgency the attacks that of course have gone down significantly since the height of the war that's still continue as evidenced by the blast in baghdad and so i think many iraqis that you speak to will say you know what yes we're free that saddam hussein is gone but at what cost is it worth it to have these daily attacks this violence one man that we spoke to in the city of kirkuk just today said yes i'm free to go out of my house today the question is whether i will return alive and i think that says quite a lot about the situation in iraq faces today nearly forty percent of all iraq the

adults at the moment don't have a job a quarter of the families live below the world bank's poverty line these statistics that aren't much better than what we saw under the crippling u.n. sanctions of the one nine hundred ninety s. for iraq the future really remains uncertain at the moment well known to his military campaign in iraq was supposed to overthrow the regime of saddam hussein and protect the world from his alleged weapons of mass destruction. were never found. takes a look at whether the means could justify the end in the iraqi war. what for the thinking then and what do they think now those are the questions that many people want to ask those in power who made the decision to invade iraq ten years ago r.t. did just that posing several uncomfortable questions to those who voted to invade the country a decade ago warning their replies may leave you surprised no i don't regret voting

in that way because i think the people of iraq have been freed of course you'll regret any number of people who died but the big question is what were the was the intent of saddam hussein against his own people we'd already seen that we had a very repressive regime but what's come in place of saddam's baath his dream could hardly be called a better safer life indicative insurgency terror attacks roadside bombs and seemingly endless six tearing violence the effect of the invasion on the iraqi population has been devastating let's look at these numbers over here we're looking at almost five thousand coalition deaths about hundred thirty four thousand of iraq he does but of course those numbers are varying greatly depending on the source and finally you're looking at more than two million displaced people of course not to mention the latest report by the watson institute for international studies at brown university which reckons the war has to date cost the u.s.

more than two trillion dollars some american military officials remain undaunted by the numbers and believe what they did ten years ago actually was a good thing i think it was very necessary for us to do something to help the middle east which have a degree of freedom that it hadn't had before now a lot of people are going to argue that the iraq invasion did not provide the types of freedom that we had originally envisioned but what would be you're dealing with i would say the regime that didn't allow any freedoms and now depending on where you are in iraq there is at least a some. once of some freedom unfortunately no map of those places has been provided the latest gallup poll conducted on the eve of the tenth anniversary showed fifty three percent of americans consider the invasion of iraq a mistake the view is shared by at least one man who was among those who ten years ago believed a military operation against saddam hussein was necessary artie's bureau

laundromats with lord prescott who in two thousand and three was tony blair's deputy prime minister it always used to be denied that it was a regime change book about not only wants review but it's now what motivates the russian i think in regard to iraq you see the people not talking about intervening but they don't want boots on the ground with they just want. to kill civilians. so i want the lesson to be learned and we shouldn't repeat it again these countries must develop ways as for those iraqis who fought in the war well for them the war is anything but over as they now have to rebuild a country led to the brink of collapse by foreign invaders in the name of ultimate good while those who instigated the carnage seem to show no regrets whatsoever. peace activist ken stein believes washington's ambitions in iraq went beyond just

helping the iraqi people the anglo-american invasion of iraq turned iraq into a disaster area it partition the country into three parts it dean nationalize the oil it destroyed the infrastructure it was responsible for the deaths of over a million the have people and the turning into refugees of at least two million in the rockies it was never about a genocidal dictator that's part of the same weapons of mass destruction script that united states and britain and other western countries are still playing today against syria iran north korea it wasn't about the weapons of mass destruction it wasn't about connections to terrorism it was about seizing the oil resources of iraq and that's what is the main issue here and in the next hour on the streets of iraq setting out on a three week trip exploring the country behind the headlines don't miss a special report. clear image of iraq to face.

twenty day taxi trip through the country. the road games are. clear evidence from north to south. the reach of iraqi tragedy. after the war waiting for peace. i got a taxi on our t.v. . syria's government and rebels are accusing each other of launching a chemical attack near the northern city of aleppo that killed twenty five people and wounded dozens opposition activists airlie said government troops were among the dead needs of the attack led to a prompt in international response britain and the us reiterated earlier warnings that the use of chemical weapons could lead to an intervention russia expressed concerns that rebels might have got hold of the orphaned historian gerald horne

says the horrors of syria cannot be looked at an isolation. if it turns out that the rebels committed this we should not be surprised after all they've become master of car bombings not least we should also recall that this is the tenth anniversary of the disastrous us invasion of iraq and as we speak bombs are going off in baghdad punctuating this disastrous invasion we should connect the two events just as the al-qaeda in iraq and their allies or get to making bombs in baghdad across the border in syria our newsroom front which is connected to al qaeda in iraq is engaged in car bombings and perhaps chemical weapons bombings as well france and the u.k. or wintering powers as a result of that weakness france and the u.k. are heavily dependent upon capital from the gulf arabs the saudis and the pitot reason not least and so it seems to me that when they talk about trying to arm the

rebels in syria they're basically dancing to the tune played by the saudis and the qataris a quick look now at the news making headlines around the globe u.s. lawmakers have decided to drop a ban on assault weapons from proposed gun control legislation fisher was that a the measure lacks a pull but it's believed the ban could later be voted on as a separate bill that polls show most americans back an assault weapons ban in full . pro-gun lobby groups such as the national rifle association have pressed lawmakers to oppose such a move. and al qaeda is north african branch say they've killed a french hostage in mali reports claim felipe dome was killed in response to france's intervention in the country the french foreign ministry says it's trying to verify the report done another frenchmen were seized in mali november twentieth . i'm back in about half an hour more news ahead it's breaking the set.

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